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We also live in times where game developers can lie to you about a game and its contents for like ten fucking years, and then on release day try to shrug it off like it’s no big deal that it’s a buggy half-baked mess
Conspiracy theories are popular because people often prefer easy answers to reality. And "gays womens disableds bad" is a very easy answer, as it absolves [thanks maccentric] people that are not in those groups from blame.
Some actual conspiracies being true, the world burning and governments doing shit like dragnet surveillance doesn't help either.
We need to restore trust in governments, but for that, we need to get governments we can trust.
we need to get governments we can trust.
Which isn't going to happen if enough people vote along the lines of completely insane conspiracy theories. The candidate who says "I'm going to turn off the Jewish space lasers!!!" is almost certainly not going to be the one who makes the lives of normal people better through empathetic listening.
Just shut down AIPAC, can we start there?
*absolves
This sounds weird to me. What is easier than just trusting the official information? This is exactly what conspiracy theorists are complaining about actually. That ordinary people just trust the information they are given by credible sources.
If anything, people who believe the standard information are the laziest, no?
So the "easy answers" part sounds a bit weird. The easy answers are right there on TV and the internet on the first search hit.
It's more that those answers don't make sense to conspiracy theorists. I guess you can tell them to get a degree in science and then it will make sense to them, but that won't happen.
But it's interesting how others can appearently explain how things work to conspiracy theorists in a way so they feel they understand and don't doubt the information. Because it makes intuitive sense to them.
Maybe too much of science is hidden behind complicated layers that normal people just don't understand and can't understand.
"Easy answers" in that they're simple, fit into their existing worldview, and don't require them to change anything. Not easy as in the easiest to find. That's why it's a conspiracy, the simple answers that they want to be correct are being hidden from them.
Conspiracy theories are easy answers because they lack the nuance of reality and they present an attractive narrative. There's good guys, bad guys, underdogs, secrets, etc. In contrast reality is full of grey areas, requires a lot of thought, will make you empathize with those you thought you'd blame and vice versa. Facing facts is hard work.
I don't know if it's contradicting anything. Bad guys with power get together and plan things all the time.
It really isn't very hard to keep things under cover either. A lot of coverups goes unnoticed for many years until some whistleblower steps forward and gets punished severely. Specially the US strikes down on whistleblowers very, very hard.
How many are ongoing right now? I'm guessing a lot. Because people are no longer even looking for it. That worries me. I think people are fooling themselves that there are no big plans carried out, and events are just random. Nobody intends to do anything, and things just happen. Makes no sense to me at all.
It's more that those answers don't make sense to conspiracy theorists
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What is easier than just trusting the official information?
It's easier to say "This doesn't make sense, so it must be wrong" than it is to say "This doesn't make sense, so I must learn more to figure out how it could make sense."
It's easier to say "I know more than everyone else because I ~~am critical thinker~~ watch YouTube videos that express views that go against mainstream knowledge" than it is to actually have the skills to engage in critical thinking, and to have the knowledge to be able to determine a good source of information from a bad one.
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We live in times where making up bullshit is consequence free, even if you get called out on it. People seem to value if you can speak well more than if you're speaking the truth.
But hey, it's free speech in the marketplace of ideas, so maybe it's actually a good thing.
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Far-right fuckwits have created conspiracy theories about everything, just add it to the list.
Jason Shrier pointed this out multiple times in his podcast. He HAS the insider knowledge and shares it when appropriate and he will still see Twitter folks just blaming DEI for the issues any game is having. Sweet Baby Inc is a good one because some YouTubers grabbed on to this company simply because it’s a DEI consulting group, and now it spread like wild fire and you will even see comments on Reddit and Lemmy blaming Sweet Baby Inc for things that no one really know what aspects they worked with and how much.
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The Witcher 3’s director left? Well, yeah, more than 2 years ago…
What, why?
Witcher 3 is 9 years old right now. Looking for other jobs after you've been with a company isn't anything new.
Last patch was only a year ago. Googled it, turns out the dev team, and those behind cyberpunk, left to start their own studio.
The Switcher 3 director left and immediately afterwards CDPR's YouTube channel posts a video on the importance of ESG 🧐
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